Word: halfe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...players, including the Cleveland Browns' ex-Fullback Jimmy Brown and the Washington Redskins' Guard John Wooten, started the nonprofit Negro Industrial and Economic Union. With a $520,000 grant from the Ford Foundation and $251,000 from the Commerce Department, the union has helped finance firms in half a dozen cities. Using such aid, former Barber Dennis Taylor, 29, has built his year-and-a-half-old Magnificent Natural Products Inc., a Los Angeles cosmetics manufacturer, into a thriving concern that expects to gross at least $500,000 this year...
Pour la Patrie. Though bargain rates should put TV within reach of many companies, the number that can exploit the new advertising opportunity is limited by stiff government restrictions. Half the plugs must boost sales of certain food products to help French farmers unload their surpluses. The rest are equally divided between textiles and electric appliances, whose makers have been hurt by foreign competition. For non-French products, the chances of appearing on French TV screens are small. Before letting a commercial go on the air, the government has to be satisfied that its message serves the interests...
Eliot, held to a 6-6 stalemate in the first half, broke the game open in the second half with two long touchdowns to defeat Adams...
...whole nervous system is so wracked by amphetamines that he literally has to be carried off the stage after a performance. His speech is an alternating pattern of comments followed by ghastly croaks that begin somewhere down within his sinewy frame and emerge through a crooked row of half rotten teeth. When I asked him why they called themselves "Cream," he emitted the type of lecherous laugh that would turn anyone with an unmarried daughter into a life-long advocate of the police state: "It was a joke...a dirty joke...
...About half of our members are former members of SFAC, PBH, the Freshman Council, or other organizations," Frank D. Raines '71, one of the Union's founders, said yesterday. "What we hope to do is thoroughly research issues, present a position on them, and then try to implement our proposals through the most effective channels...